New Jersey    I am a 24 year old guy just out on his own adventuring this big and beautiful world. I'm from a small town in New …

Writing captivates me, language fascinates me, words enthrall me, poetry calms me.

Michigan    when people are free to do as they please; they usually imitate each other. "art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

San Diego    Jon Tobias is a sucker for love poems and romanticizes everything. He doesn't mean to, but it's what he does.

Young poet, looking for work, just like every other recent college grad! Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to …

M/PH    Hands are stained with poetry. / Romanticist

27/M/Fremont, CA    Write me a picture.

I am from a small town in Alabama. I use to keep a journal several years ago and quit writing altogether when I got too …

Dana Point, CA    Doctor of Addictive Disorders (Dr.AD), clinical hypnotherapist, Jungian/Buddhist counselor, vipassana mindfulness meditation facilitator. Author of The Thirsty Addict Papers and a few dozen poems.

Gone too long....

Grab a gun step inside

in my mind    but did you poetry?

34/M    Poetry isn't written it is created. Writing it is only one form of it's expression.

to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

"Live. Laugh. Love. Repeat" :)

I started to write poetry in high school as a form of journalling and it took off from there. It is still mostly biographical in …

Bluff City, TN    I like to write because words allow a certain freedom, much like a painter's canvas or the sculptor's block. I am happily married, have several …

The temple bell stops -- but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. - Bashō (translated by Robert Bly) Writer John Mahoney lives in …